Grand Prix New Jersey Report: *91st*
Written by psu42 on November 14, 2006
Grand Prix New Jersey Report: *91st*
psu42Welcome to my report. For those of you who don’t know me, I’ve been a regular player on magic-league for over a year now and a judge now in the league for about two months. I mostly play Vintage and Legacy, otherwise you probably see me play Battle of Wits (FTW!) in any other dumb format. I recently attended GP NJ and thought I’d go ahead and make a report.
Friday (November 10th) – Foreword
So I arrive in New Jersey, the worst state in the US, late Friday night. I join the 6pm trial for three byes in the main event. I drop after round two with the worst deck I’ve ever seen in my life. After just talking to some friends from college (Penn State) and other people I meet and know, I travel back to the hotel at 4 am to get about three hours of sleep for the big day.
Saturday (November 11th) – Day 1, The Main Event
Okay, so three hours of sleep was a bad idea. I’m dead tired about thirty minutes before we even get to register decks for the deckswap.
My goal coming into the event was to make day two. After announcing the player total at 900+, (nine rounds of swiss day one) I’m not sure how well that will turn out for me.
Jump to actually opening the following sealed pool:
***Sealed Pool***
1 Fungal Reaches
1 Terramorphic Expanse
//Artifacts
1 Clockwork Hydra
1 Foriysian Totem
2 Hivestone
1 Venser's Sliver
// Gold
1 Stormbind
// Black
1 Assassinate
1 Demonic Collusion
1 Drudge Reavers
1 Evil Eye of Orms-by-Gore
1 Mana Skimmer
1 Pit Keeper
1 Premature Burial
1 Sangrophage
1 Tendrils of Corruption
1 Traitor's Clutch
1 Trespasser il-Vec
1 Twisted Abomination
// Blue
1 Bewilder
1 Crookclaw Transmuter
1 Eternity Snare
1 Fledgling Mawcor
1 Merfolk Assassin
1 Mystical Teachings
1 Riftwing Cloudskate
2 Spiketail Drakeling
1 Think Twice
1 Tolarian Sentinel
2 Truth or Tale
// Green
1 AEther Web
1 Aspect of Mongoose
1 Glass Asp
1 Greenseeker
1 Might of Old Krosa
1 Molder
1 Penumbra Spider
1 Phantom Wurm
1 Scragnoth
1 Spinneret Sliver
1 Sprout
1 Strength in Numbers
1 Thallid Shell-Dweller
1 Thelon of Havenwood
// Red
1 AEtherflame Wall
1 Bonesplitter Sliver
2 Conflagrate
2 Empty the Warrens
1 Flamecore Elemental
1 Flowstone Channeler
1 Ghitu Firebreathing
1 Plunder
2 Rift Bolt
1 Viashino Bladescout
// White
1 Angel's Grace
1 Amrou Seekers
1 Cavalry Master
1 Children of Korlis
1 Detainment Spell
1 Divine Congregation
1 Errant Doomsayers
1 Foriysian Interceptor
1 Fortify
1 Icatian Crier
1 Jedit's Dragoons
1 Plated Pegasus
1 Spirit Loop
1 Temporal Isolation
1 Watcher Sliver
***End Sealed Pool***
Green, Red, and White are the deepest colors and in my opinion they generally work well together. I struggle with the build because I’ve never run a sealed deck with Goblin Warrens. I hear and feel that it’s good, but I’ve never personally tried it before. I register the following deck:
After I register I immediately realize that I don’t know why I’m running Hivestone. It’s totally useless except in the case of some weird combo including itself, Goblin Warrens, Bonesplitter Sliver, and Fortify. I end up sideboarding it out in every game two and three. The rest of the deck seems good in my opinion however.
My basic sideboard strategy was this: Hivestone always out, then either Bladescout or Phantom Wurm out. And if they had totems or enchantments I’d bring in Plunder or Molder. Angel’s Grace came in for aggro and Flowstone Channeler came in if they had good x/1 creatures.
A lot of rounds and being tired at the time of play, my memory is not amazing on the day.
Round 1 (Todd M Nery [USA]) G/R/W
Ok, so this wasn’t the start I was looking for.
Game one I fan-open a four land hand, with Warrens, Greenseeker, and something else I don’t remember. I proceed to draw six lands in a row, including deck thinning via Greenseeker. Okay, well mana flood can only happen so much.
Game two I open a two land hand with I don’t remember what. But guess what? It doesn’t even matter. I never draw another land. Okay, well I guess if I don’t flood I get mana screw. I’m just boiling now. My deck hates me and I’m extremely tired. Whatever, so I drove like five hours to New Jersey to get screwed by the game itself and not my deck.
Matches 0-1, Games 0-2
Round 2 (Jason D Brown [USA]) B/U
So I see the pairings and think to myself, that name seems familiar. I sit down and wow, I get to play someone from home that I play at FNM every week. It’s nice to drive this far to play someone from home. Random pairings my ass, this is rigged.
Both games are similar. He opens with random dorks. I play/flashback a couple Conflagerates and Rift Bolts on his team. He plays Liege of the Pit, which I obviously have to use Temporal Isolation on. I drop Stormbind, good game. Stormbind is one of the most broken cards in sealed hands down.
Matches 1-1, Games 2-2
Round 3 (John Dorman [USA]) G/R/W
So this is the only game one where Hivestone actually does that retarded combo. I draw the nuts for said combo. Early Hivestone, drop Bonesplitter Sliver, Goblin Warrens for six tokens. Conflagerate his dorks, attack and Fortify +2/+0 on all slivers. This seems good, but Hivestone still gets sided out.
Game two I get kind of low on life from his beats until I stabilize with Warrens for six tokens, followed by four tokens the next turn. A top decked Fortify makes my team go the distance.
It’s about this time that I realize if I don’t get mana flood or screw my deck is pretty decent. Goblin Warrens is an absolute house, and I have Strength in Numbers and Fortify for a quick win.
Matches 2-1, Games 4-2
Round 4 (Kevin J Baumberger [USA]) G/R/W
Game one I open with Greenseeker, which is vital to my deck as I critically need to hit all three colors of mana very quickly. I do a turn three double suspend on Rift Bolt. Turn four both Bolts kill his dorks, I play Sprout then Warrens for eight tokens. A couple of attacks later he’s toast.
Game two I honestly don’t remember but based on his life totals I can guess what happened. 20, 18, 16, 14, 12, 10, 8, dead. Stormbind is awesome.
Matches 3-1, Games 6-2
Round 5 (Zach Barker [USA]) G/R/W
For the fourth time in five rounds my opponent is playing G/R/W as well. He opens with quick red and green totems. He smashes my face quickly.
Game two
he again opens quickly into both totems and applies pressure. I fall to eight life before I finally draw Goblin Warrens, and my hand of basic jank becomes good. Flashback Conflagerate for zero, Sprout, Greenseeker, Warrens for eight tokens. On the following turn I play Fortify for the win. Game three he does the giveaway that he is keeping a shady hand so hopefully my sideboard strategy of Plunder and Molder helps here. He opens with Mountain. I open with Greenseeker. Draw go from him makes me smile. Turn two suspend Plunder. Draw go. I play my totem turn three. He gets two lands the following two turns and plays green totem, while I basically sit and attack with Greenseeker. Plunder resolves the turn after his totem comes in, I take his land. He questions why I did this when his deck is splash red and mainly green. I then say it was a misplay, smile, and Molder his totem. He does the smart thing and plays this out, but I get Stormbind shortly thereafter and even though he draws some lands and starts to play stuff Stormbind is just that good.
Matches 4-1, Games 8-3
Round 6 (Frank Karsten [NLD]) G/R/W – U/W
This is my first attempt at a large scale tournament, so I’m quite excited to get matched up against a good pro player like Frank.
I don’t really remember game one but I think he got colored screwed up to a certain point, and I had a quick Warrens for eight. His life goes twenty, twelve, four dead.
Game two he opens with island. It kind of surprises me and he smiles, so he goes U/W into games two and three. (He says afterward it’s a better match up and his card pool was that good I guess.) Game two I won’t say anything other than I had at least three horrible misplays and I had no right to win this game, and I didn’t. I don’t think I made any misplays up to this point in the tournament, and I don’t think I made anymore, so I guess I’m glad I got them all out of the way in one game.
Game three is a long fought one. He has a lot of creatures in blue with flying and is slowly decreasing my life by two or three points. I get a Warrens for four then a Warrens for six in successive turns but it’s too late at that point.
Matches 4-2, Games 9-5
After my second loss I’m kind of down knowing I need to run the table to make day 2, and that is a long shot at best. Enter luck factor.
Round 7 (Dennis L Walker [USA])
We hit a random deck check. After about twenty minutes pass the judges return. No, my opponent didn’t mis-register his deck, but the judges found proof of marked cards. This equates to a match loss and instant disqualification for him and match win for me.
Matches 5-2, Games 11-5
Round 8 (Cedric A Phillips [USA]) G/R/W – U/W
Game one opens slow for both but he eventually drops a couple of 2/2’ish cr
eatures. I attack in for a trade, but he plays something to save his creature. I Strength in Numbers. He responds again to save his creature. I flashback Conflagerate, pitching a card to finish his creature then cast Warrens for ten tokens. I Fortify +2/+0 the next turn. He wasn’t too happy to say the least. Game two he pulls the old switcheroo and changes to U/W. He gets a bunch of flyers, including a couple Spiketail Drakelings and beats me down.
Game three starts and he mulligans to five on the draw. Time is also running low so he calls a judge and complains about slow play. (I hate idiots that do this. Do you really think I want to slow play and draw at this point and cost myself day two with one round remaining? Idiot.) Anyway, I get a Warrens for four tokens. Drop Stormbind. Kill his flyers. Fortify for the win, again. That card is really starting to impress me.
Matches 6-2, Games 13-6
Round 9 (Jonathan E Becker [USA]) B/U
For those of you who don’t know, this guy does the floor reporting for Wizards at the Pro Tours. I’m not sure heading into the match how good of a player he is, but he seems to know what he’s doing (and he’s obviously 6-2 as well). Winner gets day two, the other gets to know they lost day two in the last round which sucks.
I open into a red totem, suspend two Rift Bolts. Those kill his blue flyers, and I then play Sprout, Warrens for eight tokens. He loses in three turns.
Game two we both open slowly, and he gets an Endrek Sahr into play. That isn’t good as my tokens don’t do too much now. And I made a misplay that definitely cost me the game. Now I’m thinking I should have made day two and I’m going to hate myself if I end up losing this match.
Before game three he mentions that my deck is quite scary when you go from being way ahead to staring down a lot of tokens. So in game three he opens slow just with a turn two Ashcoat bear. He makes an end of turn misplay by untapping his Bear and then saying he uses his Terramorphic Expanse at end of turn. I call judge and judge says if he untapped Bear it’s too late for end of turn. He appeals to head judge, which is the correct thing to do with day two hanging in the balance. Head judge agrees with me and he gets his nicely tapped land during his upkeep.
Ashcoat Bear attacks for two and he plays another dork. The following turn he bounces my red totem, which is essentially a Time Walk at the current game state. At this point I have basically given up. He’s too far ahead for me to get back into this game. I draw consecutive Conflagerates and after replaying my totem, I level the field a little over the next two turns and pray it is enough for me to topdeck like a fiend.
The game moves forward slowly and I get some creatures out but have no flyers. At the end of one of my turns he plays Crookclaw Transmuter and next turn attacks me to eight. So I suspend Rift Bolt with only a Warrens and Sprout in hand. He attacks me to five. My Bolt resolves on his Transmuter. I draw Greenseeker which is about exactly what I needed. I play that Sprout and Warrens for eight. End of turn he plays another Transmuter and attacks me down to two life. He plays Endrek Sahr and a 2cc card, so he has four creatures in play and is at twelve life. My deck loves me; I topdeck Strength in Numbers, do some math, and attack on the last turn for exactly twelve damage. I’m living the dream.
Matches 7-2, 15-7
I finished 99th on day one and move on to day two after starting 0-1, which is not too shabby. I get to bed late again but manage to get in about six hours, which hopefully is enough to play a lot more magic and then drive five hours home.
Sunday (November 12th) – Day 2
Day two starts at 9am and will consist of six rounds. 1st draft followed by three rounds of play, 2nd draft then the final three rounds. I have no chance of making top eight, but 5-1 will make top sixteen, get a good amateur prize and qualify for PT Geneva. My goal is just top 32 for some cash, albeit small amount.
Draft #1
I sit down and try to calm myself down. I know I’m generally better at drafting than sealed, even though I’ve lately practiced sealed a lot more through the league.
I open my first pack and nothing jump out at me until I see the rare. Magus of the Scroll isn’t amazing as he’s easily removed but he can go a long way against the right deck. I get passed another pack with nothing amazing left except for the Timeshifted card in the form of Browbeat which is another nice red addition so I take that. The third set of cards somehow has a Temporal Isolation still, and I follow that up by picking a Griffin Guide and Icatian Crier and rounding out the pack with some other okay cards including Mogg War Marshall, Goblin Skycutter and Ironclaw Buzzadiers.
During the brief review period I think to myself that this is going extremely well. I’ve gotten some amazing cards; I seem to be in the right colors with no need to switch.
Pack two starts and I open a pretty weak pack but take a second Icatian Crier. I get passed a pack with Sacred Mesa being the first card I see; I take it without even looking at the rest of the pack. I end up getting some other nice cards throughout the draft and all of the cards except like eight are in my colors of R/W. My deck seems strong and curves out at about three, which is nice in some ways.
I play the following:
| Draft Deck One | ||
|---|---|---|
| Main Deck | Sideboard | |
|
7 Mountain 9 Plains 1 Amrou Seekers 1 Castle Raptors 2 D'Avenant Healer 1 Duskrider Peregrine 1 Goblin Skycutter 1 Gustcloak Cavalier 2 Icatian Crier 2 Ironclaw Buzzardiers 1 Ivory Giant |
1 Magus of the Scroll 2 Mogg War Marshal 1 Two-Headed Sliver 2 Zealot il-Vec 1 Browbeat 1 Griffin Guide 1 Orcish Cannonade 1 Sacred Mesa 1 Temporal Isolation 1 Thunder Totem |
1 Children of Korlis 1 Dralnu, Lich Lord 1 Drudge Reavers 1 Ghitu Firebreathing 1 Glass Asp 1 Ironclaw Buzzardiers 1 Locket of Yesterdays 1 Mogg War Marshal 1 Momentary Blink 1 Plunder 1 Pull from Eternity 1 Return to Dust 1 Spirit Loop 2 Sprout 1 Tectonic Fiend 2 Telekinetic Sliver 1 Viashino Bladescout 2 Volcanic Awakening |
Round 10 (Kevin Bohlmann [USA]) U/G
Kevin is the nicest opponent I played all weekend hands down. He’s very relaxed, as am I, and we joke the entire match about everything. This is one of the best matches I’ve ever had.
He opens with a suspended Ancestral Vision, and I open with a land pass. He goes land-pass, while I suspend a Duskrider Peregrine. He land passes again, and I play Crier. He finally starts to play some blue dorks while I make tokens. I suspend Ivory Giant and get a field of citizen tokens which go in for the win once Ivory Giant comes into play.
Game two he starts with that damned Ancestral Vision again and I just land go. I get a War Marshall followed by Crier, Magus, and Griffin Guide over the next three turns and just start beating down face. Somewhere in there he plays a Spectral Force and tries to race me but I just overwhelm him.
After the match he shows me his deck. He has little mid game creatures or tricks/removal. However, he has a lot of bombs/beats including: Ancestral Vision, Spectral Force, Krosan Cloudscraper, Brine Elemental, and Fledgling Mawcor.
Matches 8-2, Games 17-7
Round 11 (Jason W Merwin [USA]) R/?
We sit down, and he knows from his friends what I’m playing and says that he knows my deck is good but he has the right answers for me and thanks me for passing the good red cards to him. (Firstly, if I’m picking red first, you are getting the subpar cards of that color that I don’t want. Secondly, all three red cards he had that hurt me I didn’t pass, so whatever.) So the card that hurts my 1/1 army is Subterranean Shambler, and I try to prepare for it by now overextending.
Game one I lead with Magus and some other 1/1’s. He plays some vanilla 2/2, Flamecore Elemental then plays Shambler. My game falls apart and he demolishes me quickly.
Game two I open with Magus again and War Marshall turn two. He attempts to Grapeshot my Magus, but I have the Blink, which I sided in. He isn’t playing much and I don’t miss my land drops and run into Sacred Mesa. I create enough tokens to get in there for the win, and his Shambler can’t help him stop flyers.
Game three we both start with a bunch of land, go until I drop a third turn Ironclaw Buzzadier. Next turn he suits up with Griffin Guide and I ride him and some other beats to victory about five turns later.
He says he had Sulfurous Blast as well, which would have ruined my day, so I’m glad I didn’t see that.
Matches 9-2, Games 19-8
Round 12 (Francis Cormier [CAN]) B/U
I’ll make this simple: he had the best draft deck I’ve ever seen. He quickly dispatched of me in two games.
2x Looter il-Kor, Prodigal Sorcerer, Fledgling Mawcor, 4x Dark Withering, and the list goes on…
Matches 9-3, Games 19-10
Draft #2
Heading into this draft I know I need to 3-0 for top 16, but top 32 for cash isn’t out of the picture…until I start drafting. I don’t remember in what order I picked stuff, but I got a lot of suspend creatures but no removal and no tricks. I was going to try to switch colors early on but decided to stay course and let the cards come. They never did.
I end up with this horrible deck hoping not to 0-3 this next set of rounds:
| Draft Deck Two | ||
|---|---|---|
| Main Deck | Sideboard | |
|
6 Forest 3 Island 7 Swamp 1 Basal Sliver 2 Corpulent Corpse 1 Deathspore Thallid 2 Durkwood Baloth 2 Errant Ephemeron 1 Greenseeker 1 Herd Gnarr 2 Mana Skimmer |
1 Might Sliver 2 Mindlash Sliver 1 Pit Keeper 1 Spinneret Sliver 1 Thallid Germinator 1 Urborg Syphon-Mage 2 Viscid Lemures 1 Wormwood Dryad 1 Ancestral Vision 1 Mindstab |
1 Aspect of Mongoose 1 Call to the Netherworld 1 Chameleon Blur 1 Children of Korlis 1 Clockspinning 1 Coral Trickster 1 Crookclaw Transmuter 2 Evil Eye of Urborg 1 Fathom Seer 1 Foriysian Interceptor 1 Glass Asp 1 Looter il-Kor 1 Magus of the Candelabra 1 Molder 2 Sage of Epityr 1 Skulking Knight 1 Spiketail Drakeling 1 Venser's Sliver 1 Voidmage Husher |
Round 13 (Jeff R Powelson [USA]) U/G
Okay, this guy is the biggest jerk you can ever play against. I show up just in time and he calls for a judge to try and say I was late, he calls the judge later for a misplay on part (which was deserved) and then calls the judge once again for slow play.
Game one he opens quickly with Looter il-Kor and speeds into a bunch of flyers that I can’t stop.
Game two he again starts quickly while I suspend a Durkwood Baloth and Ephemeron. I get some Thallids in play and get they gradually gain counters. He gets me to two life when I finally stabilize. I kill his Crookclaw Transmuters with saprolings sacrificed to Deathspore Thallid and assemble an army. He thinks he wins but fails to recognize I still have one saproling left to kill another Transmuter. He’s quite upset by this.
Game three starts with about three minutes left in the round, and he calls the judge to complain that I’m slow playing and don’t need to pile shuffle his deck again (Gasp! Randomizing a deck at a REL 4 event). The judge says all is fine and we start with about two minutes left. He suspends a Baloth, while I suspend an Ancestral Vision. Turn two he has a Looter il-Kor while all I have is a suspended Baloth and an island. A couple of turns pass at a quick pace and he gets me to seventeen when time is called. So he gets two turns while I get three, which is nice because his Baloth is coming in on his next turn (turn two). I think at this point I have six cards suspended: two Baloths, two Errant Ephemerons, Ancestral Vision (which is going to resolve) and a Corpulant Corpse. I’m not really doing anything except suspending cards and removing counters, but I did draw a Pit Keeper to block with. His Baloth comes in and he attacks me down to twelve. I remove counters, draw and pass. On his turn (turn four) he attacks me, but my Keeper blocks his Baloth and he has no tricks. I just draw and pass because I still can’t really do anything nor can I win even with suspended cards finally coming into play. We draw and he cries and complains to the judges about my playing and shuffling again. I mutter under my breath if he doesn’t grow up soon he’ll never get laid and I don’t think he liked that remark.
Matches 9-3-1, Games 20-11-1
Round 14 (Calosso L Fuentes [USA]) B/R
We both complain about how bad our decks are to start and they both are pretty bad.
He comes out of the gate with some early beats and I just suspend some idiots and lose.
Game two he plays some more beats but I have blockers and suspended beats. They eventually come into play and I crush him.
Game three is the only close one between us. We are both playing creatures and attacking, but I get a Wormwood Dryad which can swampwalk, a Viscid Lemures and an Errant Ephemeron. He’s at ten and I attack for ten, but he has a morph to flip and it’s Fortune Thief. So he goes to one and attacks back for the win.
Matches 9-4-1, Games 21-13-1
Round 15 (Daniel Sondike [USA])
I know my deck is trash at this point (rather than just thinking it’s trash) and basically have given up at this point.
Both games here are quick; I suspend a lot of stuff, but he kills me before I get any of it to come into play.
Matches 9-5-1, Games 21-15-1
Conclusion
It was a disappointing finish for the weekend not making the money when all I needed to do was probably 1-1-1 the final three rounds. Officially I finished 91st; however, it was a good finish for my first high level event and I can’t wait for a constructed Grand Prix I can attend, hopefully the Legacy Grand Prix in Columbus, Ohio next May.
I hope you enjoyed my report and post some good remarks. I’ll see you in the league mIRC channels. Feel free to message me.
-psu42
Comments:
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kikimikejiki on 2006-11-14 18:56 MDT
by kikimikejiki on 2006-11-14 18:56 MDT
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Streakz on 2006-11-14 19:00 MDT
by Daveslusher on 2006-11-14 19:25 MDT
by loran16 on 2006-11-14 19:45 MDT
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dsad on 2006-11-14 21:07 MDT
by Sandler on 2006-11-14 21:49 MDT
by DispHero on 2006-11-14 23:28 MDT
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dv8r on 2006-11-15 01:36 MDT
by evol on 2006-11-15 03:02 MDT
by IAmWoe on 2006-11-15 05:20 MDT
by kebe on 2006-11-15 09:44 MDT
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Tuto- on 2006-11-15 12:19 MDT
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Shyft- on 2006-11-15 13:00 MDT
by IAmWoe on 2006-11-15 13:06 MDT
by cjthedude on 2006-11-15 13:14 MDT
by snoopster on 2006-11-15 13:15 MDT
by karlwash3r3 on 2006-11-15 14:22 MDT
by yavin1 on 2006-11-15 17:05 MDT
by psu42 on 2006-11-15 19:25 MDT
by DESTRUCTOR on 2006-11-16 08:31 MDT
by DRINKALCOHOL on 2006-11-16 16:32 MDT
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PV on 2006-11-17 08:23 MDT
by P_P4E on 2006-11-17 08:44 MDT
by Sandler on 2006-11-17 13:47 MDT
by ElvishGod on 2006-11-18 14:58 MDT
by Mtgfanatic01 on 2006-11-19 19:02 MDT
by snoopster on 2006-11-22 20:57 MDT
kikimikejiki on 2006-11-14 18:56 MDT lolz u played my friend corm! ya his deck was nuts i played at the gp too i started 4-0 without byes with a disgucstin deck and beat darwin kastle round 4 and earned a cool 50 so it was a good weekend bc i made more money than more than half the ppl who day 2ed:) sadly i didnt make day 2 bc preceeding my 4-0 start my draws were just rly crappy and i went 0-3 so :( and cardin the winner is a friend from montreal:P
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kikimikejiki on 2006-11-14 18:56 MDT l
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Streakz on 2006-11-14 19:00 MDT rofl u lost to dan tap: cliff
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Daveslusher on 2006-11-14 19:25 MDT ****Me being a moron ignore this ^_^
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loran16 on 2006-11-14 19:45 MDT I would've played blue from your sealed...you're tricks arent too good, but you have great creatures.
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dsad on 2006-11-14 21:07 MDT 91st isnt horrible out of 900 people, but sandler took 38th.. till he scrubbed out to Tim Aten.
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Sandler on 2006-11-14 21:49 MDT by azuRE on 2006-11-14 23:07 EST
91st isnt horrible out of 900 people, but sandler took 38th.. till he scrubbed out to Tim Aten.
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DispHero on 2006-11-14 23:28 MDT Well considering I played you round 3 and that is not how it went at all because i remeber the match clearly we even had a small chat afterwords i think if your gonna write a tournament report get the facts straight not just the names congrats on the day 2 thou
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dv8r on 2006-11-15 01:36 MDT firstly, congratulations, day 2 at a gp of 900+ ppl is pretty good. your sealed pool is not actually that great either, and I probably would have gone blue like loran and not made day 2.
however, I can see a general theme of misplaying creeping through here... sleeping 3 hours before a gp? and I can guess by the end of Sunday you were pretty shattered as well, judging by all the allusions to misdrafting and tunnel vision on the quality of your deck. The last draft is actually pretty solid if you go base blue/black and you might have been able to go 3-0 or at least 2-1 with it.
nice report, just want to note that bladescout doesn't count as a creature really, he's a combat trick that gives you a creature as a kicker
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evol on 2006-11-15 03:02 MDT There are worse states than new jersey, douchebag.
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IAmWoe on 2006-11-15 05:20 MDT New Jersey is pretty bad though.
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kebe on 2006-11-15 09:44 MDT danial sondike is actaully snoopster btw
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Tuto- on 2006-11-15 12:19 MDT Nice article and good job.
Tuto-
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Shyft- on 2006-11-15 13:00 MDT Holy crap, that build was awful.
Thanks for the article, though!
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IAmWoe on 2006-11-15 13:06 MDT Totally, forgot to say, good job on the article, I liked!
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cjthedude on 2006-11-15 13:14 MDT imo there was no reason to go white you had plenty of green/red cards that wouldve been fine in the main deck.
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snoopster on 2006-11-15 13:15 MDT i'm daniel sondike, your 15th round opponent, by the way. in the games we played, i thought your deck was pretty good :/
also, i'm just wondering why in the world you wouldn't play phantom wurm maindeck. it is an easy first pick for most people.
also, i stayed up all night modo'ing the nights before the grand prix, and got 39th and $400, so i realized that sleep is completely unecesarry.
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karlwash3r3 on 2006-11-15 14:22 MDT i know calosso fuentes. he goes to the place i play at.
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yavin1 on 2006-11-15 17:05 MDT i live in jersey, and i love it (brain was probably mutated by all the pollutants) i play to get a tatoo of it in my armpit, symbolic of america''s armpit
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psu42 on 2006-11-15 19:25 MDT all of your comments are correct yavin1
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DESTRUCTOR on 2006-11-16 08:31 MDT in the last draft you should played only BU because in the sb are some goddies and your main green is pretty crappy
nice article and congratz on day2 betther luck next time on finishing in the money
BTW sleep before the tournament is something you should do because that way you have more energy to be focus on everything and just evoid the missplays
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DRINKALCOHOL on 2006-11-16 16:32 MDT people fail to realize that new jersey has one of the highest standards of living of all the states
while it may suck, it's probably like the 3rd or 4th most important state
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PV on 2006-11-17 08:23 MDT also, i stayed up all night modo'ing the nights before the grand prix, and got 39th and $400, so i realized that sleep is completely unecesarry.
That's cuz ur an amateur... mere mortals like us have to actually do well if we want to get money :P
Good job on the article :)
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P_P4E on 2006-11-17 08:44 MDT Cedric Phillips is a friend of mine, and your a donk so he was pissed you were winning obviously. Your deck is complete garbage, and you winning (atleast against ced) was complete luck.
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Sandler on 2006-11-17 13:47 MDT Cedric Phillips is cool but P_p4e is a mean person :(
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ElvishGod on 2006-11-18 14:58 MDT NJ > you
i live there, its great...
sorry, let me reiterate.
SOUTH jersey is great. Everyone just sees or hears about North Jersey... South Jersey is a nice place. Very rural, but still plenty of commercial locations. We live near the shore, we get not too hot summers, and nice snowy winters. It really is beautiful down here in the snow. I don't see what's so bad about Jersey. Except I guess North Jersey is a reeking dense-land
anyway, good job. 92nd is not too bad at all with so many people
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Mtgfanatic01 on 2006-11-19 19:02 MDT Cool, Congrats man!!
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snoopster on 2006-11-22 20:57 MDT cedric phillips stole my bike
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